"Breathing is a fascinating thing to watch in a woman."

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Source : Samuel R. Delany (2011). “Einstein Intersection”, p.138, Wesleyan University Press

Samuel R. Delany

#Breathing Quotes #Watches Quotes

“This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.”
“I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there”
“God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.”
“I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.”
“Thats the thing about better. You cant own it. You can only pursue it. Stalk it. But once youve tasted it, better is never truly beyond your reach.”
“In order to travel far you have to be detached.”
“When we are baptized and confirmed, the promised blessing is that we may always have the Holy Ghost to be with us. If you are consistently good, you will have the companionship of the Holy Ghost much of the time.”
“I don't come from a particularly musical family. My mother learned a bit of piano in Korea. When I was three, I apparently climbed up on our upright piano and started picking Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star out.”

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